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a N OCEAN ISLE BEACH RESIDENTS JASON AND LAUREN GORE APPRECIATE THE OLD-FASHIONED WAY OF DOING THINGS AT HUCKLEBERRY FARM.
BY BETH A. KLAHRE PHOTOGRAPHY BY MEGAN DEITZ
Jason and Lauren Gore are the perfect pair for running a farm. As a child, Lauren learned to quilt and can food from her grandmother. As a teen, she worked for family-owned Graystone Farm in Reidsville, North Carolina. She competed and showed palomino quarter horses on a national level and was involved in 4-H and in the national Future Farmers of America (FFA). She grew tomatoes to sell for her college fund. Jason fit right in when they started dating in eleventh grade. He fished, hunted and worked on Lauren’s grandparents’ tobacco farm near Winston-Salem, where they grew and cut hay each summer. After one year of marriage, Jason, a graduate of N.C. State University with a degree in agronomy, accepted a job opportunity in Brunswick County, where his parents grew up and were currently living. Lauren, an elementary education graduate with a science concentration and a graduate certificate in horticulture, was teaching third grade. They decided to try out beach life and moved from western North Carolina to a development in
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